How hot does the N64 get?

Mario · Post by **Mario** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 3:13 pm

Does anybody have any idea? I'm building a temperature-controlled PWM fan for my N64 portable. I need to know the normal operating temperature and how hot it gets before it shuts down.

Does anybody have this information?

kibble · Post by **kibble** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 9:23 pm

I was gonna build a PWM controlled fan too until I realized it doesn't get very hot as long as it's got some sort of heatsink to absorb the heat.

I really don't think an N64 would shut down if it got too hot, probably lock up or maybe damage one of it's chips, but I haven't let any of my test subjects get hot enough for either one to happen.

Post by **marshallh** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:39 pm

My dev 64 has been run for hours at a time with no heatsink, just the aluminum blocks on each chip. They get pretty hot but the N64 never shut down or started to crash.

Mario · Post by **Mario** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 11:36 am

Thanks, guys. I had also asked this at Modretro, and daftmike gave some great info.

http://forums.modretro.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=1395" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Flodder450 · Post by **Flodder450** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 1:47 pm

My n64 heats up the cartridge pretty much,and the expansion pak get hot often

blaze3927 · Post by **blaze3927** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 3:48 pm

hmm with a pal board i tested recently, it went for 30 mins (without any form of heatsink) before the screen begin to get hazier and hazier and finally stated flashing sideways. this was with very poor ventilation however

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